St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-22
The Boston and st. Paul Globes the Most
Important and Successful Papers
In the Country.
George Alfred Townsend, the Famous
Correspondent, Writes About Mime
sofa Men and Politics.
Growth Of st. Paul and Minneapolis Rail-
read Development in The Northwest
Cleveland and Blaine.
George Alfred. Townsend c.Gath'Y in the

NEW DIRK, May l2.-Ine banquet To
the proprietor on the occasion of OPEN
ing the Boston Globe building had at
least one happy result i'll bringing to-
gether persons connected with the press
who had not been in the habit OF seeing
each other more than once in several
years. AS l went over in the special car
from New York and returned by 1t, my
opportunities for talking as much as
twelve hours with several of the guests
were improved. Mr.. John f. Baker, OF
the st. Paul GLOBE, who attended Har-
ward college, related the story of the
press in the far Northwest to NE. His
father is the publisher of the ST. Paul
GLOBE, name which re-
wives newspaper associations of
long standing. This name wa;
chosen for Gen. Jackson's cele-
brated political organ at Washington,
after Jackson had resolved to have his
Owl press and writer's and system of
correspondence in the handling of the
Democratic papers of his time. Francis
=. Blair had distinguished himself in
Kentucky, which state had been SO long
in the hands of Henry Clay, the pr;nei-
pal rival of Jackson for the presidency.
IldNt DOtu dli
antagOniSm between Kentucky and Ten
ton. They lie side by side like one
blick upon another, and yet have quite
different social and colonial origins.
Tennessee represents the CaroiinaS.
while Kentucky was an emanation from
Virginia. Kentucky came into the Union
first, but was soon followed 10y TeEnes-
see, and the two states were Of some
what different productions and re-
sources. Kentucky engaged in the growth
hemp, tobacco, live stock and distilled of
liquors. Tennessee was a source of
population rather than result of emf
grafton. 1t threw Off number of states
to the west and south of it, ard became
known as ''the mother of states" Ken
lucky was for good while homo
geneOus state, comprising, besides the
Virginia population, certain affiliated
populations which had gone from Mary
land and Western Pennsylvania. After
the whisky Instruction of 1894 many
of the disseminated spirits sought refuge
in Kentucky, which was also the para
disc of Virginia officeholders and mill
tary afventurerS. AS Kentucky devel-
Oped population
HER OFF-SHOOTS WENT TO INHABIT
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and even Iowa.
The Tennesseans settled Missouri, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ala
bama. AS soon as these new frontier
states were large enough to differ from
their Eastern promoters they took upon
themselves ambition and separate ca
reerS. Henry Clay soon mastered Ken
lucky, and he belonged to the anti-Fed-
eraliSt party which was then called the
Jeffers0nian Republican party. or the
Democratic Republican party. But
Kentucky assumed a certain guardian
ship over the states north OF the Ohio,
and soon began to feel like interest
with them in internal improvements and
manufactures. This led to an Intimate
conjunction between the Northern
or John Quincy Adams, Republicans
and the Henry Clay Republicans. The
name of National Republican was sub
stituted for that of Democratic Repub-
lican, and Mr.. Clay became the pros
pective president of the United States.
In the meantime Gen. jackson, by his
military exploits, filled large share of
tlle public favor, and he felt that while
%he politicians and press were against
him the majority of the electors were in
his favor. Hence resulted the contest
for president in 1924, which was thrown
into congress, and both jackson and
Clay were put aside for Mr.. Adams, who
had been in his youth a FederaliSt, but
had, during the second war with England,
made his utilization with the Jefferson
ianS rather than the MadiSOnianS. Very
much the same feeling was stirred up
following that election which has been
observed in our time concerning the dis
puted count between Hayes and Tilden.
Though Hayes received the presidency,
there were grumblingS and Indignation
on the part of the Democrats who
claimed that the advantage was unfair,
and in spite of the public desire. So
Jackson and his friends raised the cry
of bribery and corruption between John
Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. 1t was
resolved not to submit any more to COM
binations such as had made Mr.. Clay
the secretary of state and Mr.. Adams
the president. The convention system
to revolutiOniZe the state of Kentucky,
where he had good many followers
naturally arising from Dir. Clay's prom
inence, and his acceptance of the Suf-
frages of many of the old Federalists.
But, ON the other hand, q section of the
FederalistS sustained Jackson because
they
DIsLIKED THE SON OF JOHN ADAMS.
Among these were the sons of Alex
ander Hamilton. The feud which had
originated in the Federal party in 1899
between Hamilton and Adams thus bore
fruit as late as 1928, an interval of
thirty years. In short, the Democratic
Republican party of that period planted
itself very nearly upon the ground of
the old Federalists, rejecting their name
been well shown in Henry Adams life
of Albert Gallatin. A long possession
of the government had compelled the
Jefferson and Madison and Mon
roe men to abandon the merely
popular character of their party
and to rally more upon the
organic nature of the gov
eminent as the most effective political
fundamentally. General jackson con-
cealed his rage at having been beaten in
1924 by the Republican leaders in con-
gress, until he was inaugurated, when
he began to announce that there mist
be sweeping reform. This was soon
understood to mean that the old office
holders under jefferson, Madison aud
Monroe and John Quincy Adams must
or nearly at the same time, the new adj
ministration began its quarrel with Cal
houn, the vice president, who had alb
Sorbed most of that support which had
not rallied under the banner of Clay
and Adams. Not trusting the Demo
cratic printing house of that time, Jack
son sent to Kentucky for one of Mr.. Clay's
opponents to edit the Globe newspa-
per. The Globe remained the standard
and arbitrary organ of Jackson and
Van Buren, for term of years, or until
the election of Mr.. Polk in 1874. AT
that time the Calhoun element had be-
come so formidable in the new Demo-
cratic party that it was bound to Danish
Blair for having criticised Mr.. Calhoun
and thrown contempt upon him. So
the Globe was set aside, or would have
been but for the fact that at the veneer
able Jackson's advice its proprietors